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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
First published in 1944 Fell Murder sees E.C.R. Lorac at the height
of her considerable powers as a purveyor of well-made, traditional
and emphatic detective fiction. The book presents a fascinating
`return of the prodigal' mystery set in the later stages of the
Second World War amidst the close-knit farmerfolk community of
Lancashire's lovely Lune valley. The Garths had farmed their
fertile acres for generations and fine land it was with the
towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Garthmere
Hall itself was old before Flodden Field, and here hot-tempered
Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled his
household with a rod of iron. The peaceful dales and fells of the
north country provide the setting for this grim story of a murder,
a setting in fact which is one of the attractive features of an
unusual and distinctive tale of evil passions and murderous hate in
a small rural community.
’n Reeks geheimsinnige oorsese betalings aan weeskinders van die Bosoorlog het die Inkomstediens diep bekommerd. Dit dra die vingermerke van die ou SAW se koverte intelligensiegroep, Delta 40.
Tex se aandag is erg verdeel tussen dié saak en die selfdood van die Engelsman, ‘n oud-makker, wat uit gewetensbeswaardheid nooit aan ‘n vuurwapen gevat het nie. Met Carlos nou terug in Angola, probeer Tex die vreemde omstandighede van die Engelsman se dood opsy skuif en Helena met die naspoor van die geheimsinnige transaksies help.
Maar hy en Carlos se bosoorlog-verlede – en die spoor van ‘n ivoor-smokkelnetwerk wat hulle saam met die Engelsman in Angola oopgekrap het – bly opdring tot Tex dit nie meer kan ignoreer nie.
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Emma on Fire
(Paperback)
James Patterson, Emily Raymond
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A body. A cover up. A buried secret. Sonja Kurtz - former soldier,
supposedly retired mercenary - is in Vietnam carrying out a
personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help.
Emma is on a dig at the edge of Namibia's Etosha National Park
studying archaeology and she's discovered a body that dates back to
the country's liberation war of the 1980s. The remains, identified
as Hudson Brand, are a key piece of a puzzle that will reveal the
location of a modern-day buried treasure. A find people will kill
for. Sonja returns to the country of her birth to help Emma, but
she's missing. Former CIA agent Hudson Brand is very much alive and
is also drawn back to Namibia to finally solve a decades-old
mystery whose clues are entombed in an empty corner of the desert.
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Hired Guns
(Hardcover)
Paul Salamoff; Illustrated by Ana Teresa Rivera
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R759
Discovery Miles 7 590
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW psychological thriller from the bestselling
author of My Little Brother. Four sisters, four secrets. Who has
the deadliest of them all?Something happened to me when I was nine.
My childhood memories before that fateful day are gone.
Extinguished. The aftermath has become a living nightmare with a
guilt that runs so deep that I'm not sure I can ever tell anyone. I
fear I've left it too late... The burden of my secret and the hurt
and pain that silence cost each and every member of my family is
too overwhelming. But you can't avoid fate and now I have the
opportunity to right the wrongs inflicted on us. There was no
justice. Not then. Not now. But I can change that. The big question
is, how far am I willing to go? Diane Saxon's immersive thriller
will have you debating how far you would go for your family to
right a wrong...
What antique would you kill for?
Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started . . .
Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew
up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur
Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died –
and the circumstances seem suspicious.
You will uncover an invitation, I implore you to attend . . .
But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his
death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur’s journals are
revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she’d sworn to
leave behind.
But beware, trust no-one. Your life depends on it . . .
Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Arthur’s staunch best
friend, Freya follows both clues and her instincts to an old manor
house for an ‘antiques enthusiasts weekend’. But not is all as it
seems; the antiques are bad reproductions and the guests all have
something to hide.
Can Freya and Carole solve the mystery and unearth the killer before
they strike again? Find out in The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder,
the unputdownable cosy crime caper from C L Miller.
From the author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass
Hotel is the story of the lives caught up in two very different
tragedies: a woman disappearing from a container ship, and a
massive Ponzi scheme imploding in New York. 'A perfect
post-lockdown read' - Sunday Times 'Elegant, haunting' - The Times
'A damn fine novel . . . evocative and immersive' - George R. R.
Martin Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the exclusive Hotel
Caiette. When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis walks into the
hotel and hands her his card, it is the beginning of their life
together. That same night, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the
windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.'
Leon Prevant, a shipping executive, sees the note from the hotel
bar and is shaken to his core. When Alkaitis's investment fund is
revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, Leon loses his retirement savings in
the fallout, but Vincent seemingly walks away unscathed. Until, a
decade later, she disappears from the deck of one of Leon's ships .
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